Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[Greymaus]

Mike Meyer wrote:
> You clearly weren't paying attention to what the rest
> of the microcomputer industry was doing while Gates was selling IBM
> non-existent software. While IBM was introducing 16-bit processors and
> DOS was doing a flat file system, Tandy was selliig systems - for a
> fraction of the price of any MS-DOS based system - that were
> multitasking, multiuser, had an optional windowing system that came
> with a complete (for the time) office suite. Of course, that was while
> Tandy still thought they could sell computers by selling better
> computers than you could get running MS software. 


Was that the Color Computer III running OS9 Level II for an operating 
system, that you're talking about?  Motorola 6809 processor?  HELLUVA 
little computer!  OS9 was a bit quirky, though, even for a UNIX clone.